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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2020 22:43:58 +0200
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>
Cc:        "current@FreeBSD.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: current does not boot on vmware fusion 11
Message-ID:  <E807FE3F-8414-4BA0-9389-780C77CD1D37@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <9999721581797997@iva4-35f072fa8e4e.qloud-c.yandex.net>
References:  <9999721581797997@iva4-35f072fa8e4e.qloud-c.yandex.net>

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> On 15. Feb 2020, at 22:19, Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@ipfw.ru> =
wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I upgraded vmware fusion to version 11 recently and noticed that my =
-amd64 VM stops booting immediately after printing EFI framebuffer =
information.
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> VM pops up a message stating that "The firmware encountered an =
unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot."
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> Further digging revealed that the fusion upgrade bumped vmware virtual =
HW version to 16. Downgrading it to version 15 enabled VM to work again =
as expected.
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> Description of HWv16 include "UEFI Secure Boot" as one of the declared =
features, which looks like the potential candidate reason. The full =
feature list is available below.
> How can I debug this further?
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We do not do secure boot. However, there is known issue I am trying to =
fix. You can try to run from ok prompt: ls and then boot.=20

rgds,
toomas


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> Details:
> Host: macbook pro 2017, Intel core i7, Mojave 10.14.6
> VM: r357812, amd64.
> Vmware Fusion 11.5.1 (15018442)
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> Full VM output before the error:
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> Loading kernel...=20
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=3D0x1562084 data=3D0xe0 =
data=3D0x1b5158+0x449ea8 syms=3D[0x8+0x 174e70+0x8+0x19408f] Loading =
configured modules...=20
> can't find I/boot/entropy'
> Start @ 0xffffffff80369000 ...
> EFI framebuffer information:
> adds, size 0xf0000000, 0x300000
> dimensions 1024 x 768
> stride 1024
> masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
> -
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> HWv16 description from https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion :
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> Included in HWv16 are:
> Improved Virtual NVMe Device Performance
> Important Security Fixes (Spectre, Meltdown and L1TF)
> Virtual Trusted Platform Module
> UEFI Secure Boot
> IOMMU
> VBS Support (guest only)
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> /Alexander
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